Following the devastating floods in KwaZulu-Natal recently, Midrand’s Scientology Volunteer Ministers helped eThekwini Health Unit to provide trauma counselling to survivors as well as life skills development for the communities.
Seeing the results of the non-governmental organisation’s work done in Kwa-Zulu Natal counselling the flood survivors, eThekwini Health Unit signed a partnership with the organisation to collaborate with them further.
The organisation had provided psychosocial spiritual counselling, donated food parcels and blankets, and assisted in search and rescue operations.
eThekwini Health social health and quality assurance manager Sandra Zungu had witnessed first-hand the impact the organisation had left behind. Zungu said all the places her department had visited to carry out assessments, the residents could not stop talking about the counselling sessions they had received from the volunteer ministers.
At the official partnership signing held in eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, Gugulethu Bhengu, the deputy director for social health in the municipality said, “We intend to formalise this partnership and work together going forward.”
The volunteer ministers will also provide the community with support through their Tools For Life skills development programme and have promised to continue to work with the community as long as was needed.
Mandy Pelser, a Scientology Volunteer Minister said, “Since we have seen the results of the people we have helped, of course we want as many people helped as possible.”
